Although largely preventable, pressure injury is a major concern in individuals in permanent residential aged care (PRAC). Our study aimed to identify predictors and develop a prognostic model for risk of hospitalization with pressure injury (PI)...
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Filmmaker Michelle Memran became interested in therapeutic filmmaking after spending much of her twenties making a collaborative documentary with the visionary Cuban American playwright María Irene Fornés, who wrote more than three dozen plays and...
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With the new year upon us, many of us make resolutions to improve our health and well-being. Popular resolutions include exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, and taking better care of our oral health by regularly brushing for two...
“A & O × 3.” What exactly does that mean? Those of us in post-acute and long-term care will recognize this as shorthand for “Alert and Oriented times three,” which is often the extent of many residents’ “decisional capacity evaluation,”...
Collaborative telepsychiatry can help reduce symptoms of depression and result in fewer trips to the hospital among older adults who have co-occurring chronic medical conditions, according to a study in southern California.
Excessive dietary salt intake can harm cognition in older adults, according to a prospective, population-based cohort study in the Shandong area of the People’s Republic of China.
